[cffi-devel] CLISP with CFFI for Mac OS X

[Daniel Herring]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:

> Hello, I am a budding Common Lisper. I was working on a cl-mechanize script to fill out an HTML form when I noticed that one of cl-mechanize's dependencies, cl+ssl, depends on CFFI.
> When I try to load cl-mechanize, which loads drakma, which loads cl+ssl, I get the following message:
> *** - CFFI requires CLISP compiled with dynamic FFI support.
> 
> The problem seems to be that ffcall is not installed. When I try to install it with MacPorts, I get this message:
...

Hi Andrew,

Your question doesn't really pertain to CFFI; its a Clisp install issue.

You'll probably have better luck asking on their mailing list.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-list

You may also want to look at Clozure Common Lisp.  It has very good mac 
support.
http://trac.clozure.com/ccl

Later,
Daniel